Edward Johnathan LEADBITTER

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LEADBITTER, Edward Johnathan

Service Number:	WX8425
Enlisted:	18 October 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
Born:	Shadwell, London, England, 5 December 1918
Home Town:	Armadale, Armadale, Western Australia
Schooling:	Fairbridge Farm School, Western Australia
Occupation:	Gardener
Died:	Illness (Cholera), Thailand, 10 October 1943, aged 24 years
Cemetery:	Kanchanaburi War Cemetery Coll. grave 3. G. 35-39,
Memorials:	Armadale War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Fairbridge War Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX8425, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
18 Oct 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX8425
10 Oct 1943:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX8425, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion

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Biography contributed

Edward was born in Shadwell in London, UK on 5th December, 1918

His mother was Maud Emily Alice LEADBITTER - no Fathers name listed - she died in 1931 aged 37 (Stephney)

He was sent to Australia as an orphan to the Kingsley Fairbridge Farm School in Western Australia & arrived in Fremantle on 23rd August, 1932 on the ship Oronsay

He married Winifred PURCHER in Perth, Western Australia in 1941

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